Amagi Brilliant Park - Volume 2 - Chapter Aft

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Afterword
I finished volume two of Amagi Brilliant Park six months after volume one. I’d hoped to make it more like four, but I just couldn’t pick up the pace. Hmm, too bad. Next time! Next time!
This time around, we had two main stories. For the first story, I just crammed in multiple elements, and I sort of worked it out as I went along without organizing the plot too much. I think it works fairly well as it is, but it was quite difficult, so I think I want to put a bit more planning into the story in the future. I’ve reached that conclusion as of today.
They’ve made it into the new year, but the park still has all kinds of problems. If they wanted any time for day-to-day shenanigans, first they had to work out the money and other problems... so of course, Seiya-kun’s life is as hard as ever. In the third volume they can take a breather with a little more silliness, I think.
There are other areas besides Sorcerer’s Hill where Moffle and the others work, and I have a lot of other odd characters to play with there. I haven’t had time to introduce them yet, but I plan to start rolling them out soon.
There’s just so much I want to do, I don’t know where to start!

By the way, this February, as part of the first volume’s marketing campaign, I had signing events in Kobe and Hiroshima. The Hiroshima event was in a bookstore in a certain shopping mall... and wow! That mall was big! It looked just like that famous zombie game.
It was around that time that I was thinking about what to do with AmaBri’s second park (the empty land), so that signing venue gave me a hint about how to resolve that. Thank you to everyone involved!
The okonomiyaki in Hiroshima is really good, too. I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve only ever had “Hiroshima-style” okonomiyaki in Tokyo, so it really did shock me.

Thanks to you all, AmaBri volume one had huge sales. I think it had more to do with my PR director’s hard work and Nakajima Yuka-san’s popularity more so than my own skills, but anyway, I’m really, really happy, and I can’t thank everyone enough. I was also encouraged to see us pull in readers who hadn’t read my past works. Thank you very much. I’ll continue to work as hard as I can.

Um, I think I still have two pages left to fill (the standard complaint).
What about things I’ve been up to?
Hmm. Lately my addiction to Gunpla has spiked, and I even set up a coloring table so I could use a sprayer and an airbrush. I’m pretty awful at it, though... I try using masking tape to make the colors really clean, but when I drink while I’m coloring, it always ends up in tragedy. Sorry, I’m sure no one cares.
In terms of games, I’ve been playing The Last of Us. I love zombie road movies. I’ve always wanted to write a zombie novel myself.
Oh, and the Full Metal Panic! anime Blu-ray box is coming out, so I need to start scripting a drama CD extra. But it’s been so long that I’ve forgotten the voices for Sosuke and Kaname, which is a problem. Well, I’ll figure it out, I’m sure. Go, me! Go!
I also participated in a replay of the TRPG Granquest, put out by Fujimi Shobo. I think it’s been seventeen or eighteen years since I did a game replay. Mizuno Ryo-sensei’s novel will be released at the same time as this second volume, so please buy that, too.

A lot of different people’s efforts went into making this book happen. Thanks to my illustrator Nakajima Yuka-sama and everyone else.
I want to work hard on the third volume and get it out soon. Let’s beat the heat and keep going! ...Anyway, I should wrap up. See you later!

Shouji Gatou
July 2013